🔊 Enhance Your Audio with the GPX HTB017B 18" Bluetooth Soundbar Review

Don't expect room-filling sound for less than $20. This is more than enough for a small/medium sized bedroom. The USB power adapter is a nice touch.

This speaker bar is as bad as it sounds. Reviews from other sources indicate that the default mode is Bluetooth when it's on, but my device seems to default to line-in, so I suspect this has been fixed in a later release. However, GPX doesn't list power consumption specs anywhere as they may not know about audio or USB. USB is the power source, but the USB adapter is not included. USB adapters vary in output current so speaker and amplifier performance is unknown depends on what source you are…

It pains me to downgrade from 5 to 2 because I really liked this little soundbar. It sounds great, is the perfect size for my computer and is very slick, but in less than four months two of them have shorted out where the cables come out of the soundbar and if I don't wiggle the cables just right , I do. no sound. I bought my first one from Walmart and it worked really well for about seven weeks until I had this problem and I thought it was because I had stretched the cords to the limit before…